Slop-bucket



H. POUND.

sLoP BUCKET.

(Model) No. 289,135. Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

WITNESSES:

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BY Je- ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. Plwblilhom. Wnifingi-BIL u C.

UNITED STATES PATENT Q HUGH POUND, OF PORTAGE, WISCONSIN.

SLOP-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,135, dated November 27, 1883.

I Application filed October 6, 1883. (ModeL) To a whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH POUND, of Portage, in the county of Columbia and State of Wisconsin, haveinvented anew and Improved Slop-Bucket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to improve sl0p-buckets by the means hereinafter described, and pointedout in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevationof my invention, 2 is a similar view taken on Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bucket.

A represents the body of the bucket, which may be made of any suitable size and of any suitable material, and B represents the cover, which is weighted upon the under side by the centrally-placed weight C; The cover is provided at its edges with the pivots ac, and the body A is provided upon the inside with the ears I; b. The ear I). has a plain orifice, '0, made through it to receiveone of the pivots a, while the ear b is formed with the slot 0' to receive the opposite pivot. Above the orifice c and the bottom of the slot 0 the body A has formed in it the'inwardly-projecting bead 1), under which the pivots a' a are sprung when the cover, and that,

taken on the line a: a; of Fig. 3. Fig.' the line y 3/ of the cover B is put in place, so that this head serves both to stiffen the body A and to lock the cover B in place, so that it cannot fall out of its, own accord, nor be taken out except by a pull at the handle B sufficient to spring the cover and cause the pivots a (b to pass the bead. Constructed in this manner, it will be seen that, owing to the pivots a, the cover B is free to tip to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, thus enabling the bucket to be filled or emptied without entirely removing by means of the weight 0 and pivots a c, the cover is made self-closing, so that the bucket is very convenient, and at the same time cheap and practical.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I The bucket A, havingthe orificed ear b and slotted ear b upon the inside, and formed with the bead D just above the said orifice and bottom of the said slot, in combination with the cover B, provided with the pivots a, fitting in the said ears and to be sprung under the bead D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HUGH POUND.

VVitnessesz CHAS. L. DERING, S. M. SMITH. 

